Postsecondary Education

Workforce Development
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How Work-Based Learning Can Bring Employers and Students Together
Monica Mean, Gabriella C. Gonzalez @GabCGonzalez
Jul 24, 2019
The RAND Blog
Work-based learning experiences help college grads better prepare for work. WBL programs often serve as a workforce pipeline for companies. WBL is also successful at the K–12 level and at
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Opioids
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Synthetic Opioids, Mass Shootings, Prison Education: RAND Weekly Recap
Aug 30, 2019
This weekly recap looks at fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, how to address mass shootings, higher education in prison, and more.
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United States
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RAND's Summer Reading List for Congress
Aug 5, 2019
For busy staff, August's respite from back-to-back meetings, hearing preparation, and late votes is hard-earned. The summer recess also provides an opportunity to get ahead of issues that will resurface in the fall. To that end, we have compiled recent RAND research on topics likely to top the congressional agenda come September.
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Prisoner Reentry
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North Carolina Program Helps Former Prisoners Make It on the Outside
Lois M. Davis @LoisMDavis, Michelle C. Tolbert
Jul 11, 2019
The News & Observer
To avoid the all-too-common fate of ending up back in prison, incarcerated adults need skills and credentials they typically don't have. Helping them overcome the challenges of reentry is a net gain for them and for the communities to which they return.
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Workforce Development
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How Community Colleges Can Establish Better Partnerships with Employers
Rita Karam
Jun 6, 2019
The RAND Blog
Career and technical education programs give students a chance to engage in learning relevant to their chosen fields and apply immediately for jobs. A strategic vision of collaboration between industry and community colleges can benefit all parties.
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College-Bound Students
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Dual Enrollment for High Schoolers Can Expand Access to College—with Some Caveats
Fatih Unlu @fatih_unlu_R, Julie Edmunds
Jun 6, 2019
The RAND Blog
Targeted federal investments in high school and college dual enrollment programs can boost postsecondary access for students currently underrepresented in postsecondary education. But thoughtful implementation could be key to ensuring those students are successful in college.
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Postsecondary Education
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Federal Policy Might Encourage Innovation to Cut the Cost of College
Charles A. Goldman
Jun 5, 2019
The RAND Blog
A big factor in the rise of college costs is the traditional seat-time model requiring undergraduate students to spend a specified amount of time in classrooms, frequently with doctorally qualified faculty. But there are alternative models that could enable colleges and universities to offer degrees more efficiently and affordably.
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Postsecondary Education
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Income Share Agreements: What's Risky, What's Promising, and What We Still Need to Know
Melanie A. Zaber, Kathryn A. Edwards
Jun 5, 2019
The RAND Blog
While policymakers debate options to address college affordability and the nation's mounting student loan debt, an alternative education financing model has been gaining ground in a handful of schools and state legislatures: the income share agreement. While terms vary from institution to institution, they are all based on the same premise: The more income a graduate makes, the more they will pay back.
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Postsecondary Education
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Iran, Prison College Programs, Fentanyl: RAND Weekly Recap
May 24, 2019
This weekly recap focuses on Iran's nonstate partners, lessons from a prison college program, what a fentanyl ban in China means for the U.S. opioid crisis, and more.
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Postsecondary Education
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Addressing the College Completion Problem
Lindsay Daugherty
May 9, 2019
The RAND Blog
More than half of students who enter college end up dropping out without ever completing a degree or certificate. Time and money are wasted without the benefits of a degree. While colleges are experimenting with novel techniques to boost completion rates, strategic support from the federal government could further these efforts.
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Postsecondary Education
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Pardee RAND Reimagines the Future of Public Policy Problem Solving
Susan L. Marquis @susanlmarquis
Jan 7, 2019
The Pardee RAND Graduate School is taking a new approach to public policy education. Three new streams of study and action will better align with today's policy needs. Faculty and students will shift the focus from coming up with solutions to actually implementing them.
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College-Bound Students
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The Case for Corequisites: What Are the Ingredients of Success?
Lindsay Daugherty
May 23, 2018
Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness
More than two-thirds of community college students and 40 percent of four-year college students take at least one developmental education course. States and colleges across the United States are experimenting with innovative approaches to developmental education to improve graduation rates for struggling students.
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Labor Markets
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Bridging the Growing College Divide Among Young Americans
Diana Gehlhaus Carew
Apr 13, 2018
The Hill
Over the last decade, more Americans age 25 to 34 earned four-year college and graduate degrees, but the number of those without college degrees also increased. New ways of communicating educational options and outcomes to young people are needed.
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Education Reform
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Ready, Set, College
Lindsay Daugherty
Mar 5, 2018
U.S. News & World Report
With the nation investing at least $1 billion a year in developmental education, states and colleges are rethinking their approaches to reform. Are states moving too fast to mandate developmental education policy? It depends on the policy.
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Sexual Assault
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Here's How a National Database Could Help Colleges Fight Sexual Assault
Coreen Farris, Kristie Gore
Mar 2, 2018
The Hill
At a moment of heightened awareness around sexual violence, America's colleges and universities have an opportunity to lead by example, through a commitment to full transparency about campus sexual assaults and openness to learning from each other's failures and successes.
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College-Bound Students
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National Database Could Help Students Pick College—and Income
Charles A. Goldman
Aug 1, 2017
RealClearEducation
A bill introduced in May would create a searchable database of students' college majors and earnings after graduation. The data could help U.S. students make informed decisions and could also be used to better allocate resources that benefit students.
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Postsecondary Education

How Work-Based Learning Can Bring Employers and Students Together

Synthetic Opioids, Mass Shootings, Prison Education: RAND Weekly Recap

RAND's Summer Reading List for Congress

North Carolina Program Helps Former Prisoners Make It on the Outside

How Community Colleges Can Establish Better Partnerships with Employers

Dual Enrollment for High Schoolers Can Expand Access to College—with Some Caveats

Federal Policy Might Encourage Innovation to Cut the Cost of College

Income Share Agreements: What's Risky, What's Promising, and What We Still Need to Know

Iran, Prison College Programs, Fentanyl: RAND Weekly Recap

Addressing the College Completion Problem

Pardee RAND Reimagines the Future of Public Policy Problem Solving

The Case for Corequisites: What Are the Ingredients of Success?

Bridging the Growing College Divide Among Young Americans

Ready, Set, College

Here's How a National Database Could Help Colleges Fight Sexual Assault

National Database Could Help Students Pick College—and Income

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